tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34348022024-03-13T12:25:35.177+00:00the feeling listless titlebar archivean archive of all the titlebars from the feeling listless weblogStuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-772266332002-06-01T19:31:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.623+00:00What? A scene from the film adaptation of the comic book 'Ghost World'Why? It's a staggeringly good film. Released with some largese the same day as Harry Potter, this was a film which captures the feels of a generation in the same way 'American Grafitti' did on release, a kind-of teen film which actually went some way to capturing the real experience within what at first appears to be a very Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-772263452002-06-01T19:18:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.624+00:00
What? Zen Buddhists celebrating the coming New Year
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What? Christmas Tree Worms
Why? Aren't they the strangest, most extra-ordinary things you've ever seen? I suppose I wanted to bring some magic into Christmas -- and I didn't post over the festive period so I was trying to cover all the bases in one picture.
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Who? Frodo Baggins as he appeared in the Ralph Bakshi 1978 animated interpretation of 'Lord of the Rings'
Why? It was the week 'Fellowship of the Ring' received its worldwide opening. Wanted to remind everyone this was the second time we'd been there. Although Iove the new film, it's a shame Peter Jackson hasn't acknowledged the influence the earlier picture had on the work. There are shotStuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-753673662002-04-13T20:50:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.624+00:00
What? 'Think and Link' on World Aids Day 2001.
Why? I've always tried to keep myself within the blogging community, even if I make a point of not linking to things I've found elsewhere much. This seemed like a good cause, although when the day came I wimped out with this post:"Aids I've been thinking all week about what I was going to write today and eventually realised that I don't have Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751791262002-04-08T22:06:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.625+00:00
Who? Joe DiMaggio, Baseball player
Why? Imagine being the pitcher whose heart melts as he looks into these eyes and realises he hasn't clue were the ball is going to go.... and it would have been his birthday ... noice the very small title ... eyes this intense should never be covered up ... I did consider leaving it off altogether, but I didn't want to confuse people to much.
first appeared Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751367772002-04-07T19:41:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.625+00:00
Who? Rachel Green (as played by Jennifer Aniston). From 'Friends'.
Why? Of all the characters in ‘Friends’ Rachel has been the most consistent and in terms of development, the show’s greatest achievement. From the dumbing down of Joey to the blanding out of Pheobe, many crimes have been committed but Rachel has been a triumph, as we’ve seen he develop from being a pretty little rich girl, Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751341712002-04-07T17:13:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.625+00:00
Who? Tom Baker's Doctor Who being menaced by some Daleks. Scary.
Why? I never hid behind the sofa. I couldn’t – it was against the wall. But I still didn’t cower being any kind of lounge furniture. ‘Doctor Who’ never scared me. I always saw through its inherent fakeness, unable to suspend my disbelief. I had seen ‘Blade Runner’ (that frightened me so much I puked) and the realism on Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751334812002-04-07T16:36:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.625+00:00
Who? Androgynous looking Roman statue of indeterminate origin.
Why? Every year, for five years, I’ve been attended night school classes at the local university, in a bid to keep the educational part of my student years alive. A few years ago, I left my choice of courses to the very last minute, a week after most had already begun, exactly. Looking through the booklet I found one series Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751334302002-04-07T16:32:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.626+00:00
Who? Withnail (without I) as played by Richard E. Grant, during the famous tea room scene ... 'I want the finest wines known to man, I want them here, and I want them now!'
Why? In his autobiography, ‘With Nails’, Richard E. Grant describes how the rest of career has been coloured by this part, how many of his greatest roles have been because his fellow actors wanted to work with Withnail. Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751332802002-04-07T16:18:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.626+00:00
Who? Death, as featured in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal'
Why? When I was at university, I was almost an anti-student. During my year in halls, whenever everyone else was out having fun, getting drunk, getting each other, I would spend my time at home catching up with study or reading or music or in a Friday night, the free videos available at the college library. And since my Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751148292002-04-06T22:48:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.627+00:00
Who? Jewel, the singer-songwriter.
Why? More than any of them, Jewel breaths an intimacy that suggests that in all the world, she’s singing to you. Just you. Like some private concert in a basement bar, the only other audience a bored waitress leaning on the bar reading a newspaper. I try to buy one album a week, and listen to it to death during my train journey back and forth from work. Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751144732002-04-06T22:34:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.627+00:00
Who? Richard Nixon, ex-president of the United States.
Why? I had just seen the teen/consipracy film 'Dick' with Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams. It's a spin on 'All The President's Men' in which two young girls are the Deep Throat supplying information to Woodward and Bernstein. It's a slow burning film, combining the subtle with the broad with a fantastic final shot almost worth the Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434802.post-751128282002-04-06T21:32:00.000+00:002008-09-25T16:30:44.627+00:00
What? This is one of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema's (1836-1912) more chaste works.
Why? I was casting about for something subtle for my title bar, and decided this evoked what I was trying to do with the weblog -- which was a bit high minded because I stray closer to pop culture than anything else. I was going to make this the permanent bar, but I think it stayed for all of three days. So here Stuart Ian Burnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132101517832896837noreply@blogger.com